Software Engineering

Spring 2005; CMSC 435; Section 0101

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Note that many of the lecture slides have been adapted from Sommerville's web-site.

Jan. 25: Introduction I

	First class
	Introduction to Software Engineering
	What is software engineering? Why is it important?
	The software lifecycle
	Software process models
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 1 & 4
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Feb. 2: Project Discussion

Feb. 7: Introduction I (continued)

Feb. 9: Introduction II

	"How Microsoft builds software", Michael Cusumano and Richard Selby, Communications of the ACM, vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 53-62, June 1997.
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Feb. 9, 14, 16, 21: Requirements I

	Software Requirements
	Requirements Engineering Processes
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 6 & 7
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Feb. 21: Requirements II

	Formal Specifications
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapter 9
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Feb. 23, 28, Mar. 2, 7, 9: Design I

	Architectural Design
	Object-oriented Design
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 10 & 12
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Mar. 14: Testing I

LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Mar. 16: JFCUnit and Java Swing

Mar. 28: Testing II

LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Mar. 30: Lecture by Jeff Lemich (Office of Information Technology, University of Maryland)

Apr. 4, 6, 11, 13: Testing III

LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Apr. 18, 20, 25: Design II

	User-interface Design
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 15
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Apr. 27: GUI Testing

	Reading: "Hierarchical GUI Test Case Generation Using Automated Planning", Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack and Mary Lou Soffa, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 144-155, Feb. 2001.
	Reading: "Coverage Criteria for GUI Testing", Atif M. Memon, Mary Lou Soffa and Martha E. Pollack, , 8th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and 9th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-9), Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Sept. 10-14, 2001.
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
	Reading: "Automated Test Oracles for GUIs", Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack and Mary Lou Soffa, , Eighth International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE’2000), San Diego, CA, Nov. 6-10, 2000.
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

May 2: Design III

	Distributed Systems Architectures
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapter 11
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

May 4: TerpPresent Presentation

May 9: TerpPaint Presentation

May 11: TerpSpreadSheet Presentation